Nas
Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known by his stage name Nas /ˈnɑːz/, is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas has released eight consecutive Platinum and Multi-Platinum albums and sold over 25 million records worldwide since 1994. He is also an entrepreneur through his own record label; he serves as associate publisher of Mass Appeal magazine and is the owner of a Fila sneaker store. He is...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 September 1973
CountryUnited States of America
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind
I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh.
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
My weapon of choice is my voice.
You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.
I never see the whips niggas be claimin' they drivin, I guess 'entertainment' means blatantly lyin'.
I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.
Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.
Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe...
Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.
I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me.
What you call a infinite brawl, eternal souls clashin War gets deep, some beef is everlastin